Watchman Nee Quotes
Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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I have no message.
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She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
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I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.
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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
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I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.
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I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
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The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.
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I have a beer belly.
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I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.
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We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.
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It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.
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When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'
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What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
